54 research outputs found
Duell an der Havel: Fritz von Unruh’s depiction of eighteenth-century Prussian-American relations
No full textIn his play Duell an der Havel (1954), the German playwright Fritz von Unruh took the liberty to imagine a fictional encounter between historic figures like Frederick the Great of Prussia and President George Washington. In his play, Unruh attempts a difficult mediation between opposing models of Enlightenment governance and the opposition of freedom and duty. Although historic events in Unruh’s play are completely invented and staged, the author argues that the play holds up as a way of thinking about the complex history of the transatlantic relationship between Germany and the United States, from Washington and Fredrick the Great to Trump and Merkel. (DIPF/Orig.
The importance of pairwork in educational and interdisciplinary initiatives
No full textAn early and prominent employee of Google, Georges Harik, recently made the assertion that pairs working together in startups are 20 times more productive than individuals working alone. The author has also personally experienced the boost of what is here termed pairwork in a university setting during the startup phase of several educational and interdisciplinary initiatives. The paper briefly explores pairwork in the history of technology and constructs both qualitative and little quantitative models of pairwork. The quantitative model under reasonable assumptions easily recovers Harik’s 20x boost. The paper also briefly examines the author’s recent experiences with pairwork in four interdisciplinary and educational initiatives
Die Europawahl 2014 und das Duell um die Kommissionspräsidentschaft
No full textDie vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Rolle der neuartigen europäischen SpitzenkandidatInnen für die Kommissionspräsidentschaft bei der Europawahl 2014. Theoretische Grundlage bildet eine Synthese aus Europäisierungs- und Demokratiedefizitliteratur. Argumentiert wird, dass es sich bei der Einführung der SpitzenkandidatInnen um einen Versuch der supranationalen Institutionen handelte, ihre Stellung im europäischen Machtgefüge zu verbessern („Supranationalisierung“). Die Ankündigung der politischen Eliten, dass die neue Praxis die demokratische Qualität des politischen Systems der EU nachhaltig verbessern würde, wird aufgrund der Forschungsergebnisse kritisch betrachtet. Da die Europawahlen de facto 28 gleichzeitig stattfindende Nationalwahlen sind, waren die SpitzenkandidatInnen auf die nationalen Parteien angewiesen. Aus diesem Grund wurden die Wahlkämpfe von 20 westeuropäischen EVP- bzw. SPE-Mitgliedsparteien anhand ihrer Facebook-Auftritte empirisch untersucht. Nach einer quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse wurden lineare und logistische Regressionsmodelle berechnet, um 14 Hypothesen zu testen. Im Fokus standen sowohl die Faktoren, die zur Einbindung von Jean-Claude Juncker und Martin Schulz in die nationalen Wahlkampagnen führten, als auch die Konsequenzen dieser Einbindung.
Es zeigte sich, dass vor allem Parteien, die der europäischen Integration positiv gegenüber stehen, dazu neigten, die neuen Spitzenkandidaten in ihre Wahlkämpfe aufzunehmen. Ein wichtiger Verstärker der Einbindung dürften TV-Konfrontationen zwischen Juncker und Schulz gewesen sein, die auf nationaler Ebene ausgerichtet wurden. Ein „Duell“ zwischen den beiden aussichtsreichsten Kandidaten scheint es keines gegeben zu haben. Zu einer „sinnvollen“ europäischen politischen Debatte haben Schulz und Juncker nicht beigetragen, da sich ihre Auftritte (genau wie jene nationaler Personen) dethematisierend auswirkten und auch Parteien, welche die Spitzenkandidaten nicht einbanden, mit europäischen issues arbeiteten.This thesis investigates the role of the recently introduced European “Spitzenkandidaten” for Commission President in the 2014 European elections. The theoretical framework is based on Europeanisation and “democratic deficit” literature. The author argues that the European “Spitzenkandidaten” were an attempt by the supranational institutions to improve their position in the European political power structure. The results of this research make it difficult to believe that the “Spitzenkandidaten” succeeded in increasing the democratic quality of the EU’s political system in a sustainable way, contrary to the political elite’s proclamations.
The European elections are 28 simultaneously held national polls, which is why the “Spitzenkandidaten” relied heavily on the parties in the member states. Thus, 20 Western European EPP or PES member parties’ election campaigns were analysed on the basis of their Facebook pages. Linear and logistic regression models were calculated using the data obtained by quantitative content analysis. 14 hypotheses, which focused on potential variables influencing the integration of the “Spitzenkandidaten” as well as the consequences of integration, were tested.
It was proved that parties in favour of European integration were more likely to include “lead candidates” in their campaigns. Television debates organised by national broadcasters between the “Spitzenkandidaten” had an important positive influence on the candidates’ integration. There is no evidence for a “duel” between Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz. The lead candidates have apparently failed to stimulate a “meaningful” pan-European political debate. Their appearance had a negative influence on the parties’ use of issues, which imitates the effect of national politicians
River Bend Center
No full textThe author has chosen to design a convention hotel along with a commercial shopping facility for South Bend, Indiana. The complex will make up a super block located in the downtown area along an outdoor pedestrian mall. It will include high quality accommodations for conventioneers and visitors to the city, assembly facilities, first class dining facilities, nightclub, swimming pool, and a large retail complex to serve both the hotel and the residents of South Bend.Thesis (B. Arch.)College of Architecture and Plannin
How Culture Drives Economic Behavior in Cooperatives
No full textThe core cognitive foundation of cooperative values, norms and beliefs can need updating and refurbishing just like the hard economic assets of plant and equipment that maintain their visible, outward structure. Import competition, agricultural industrialization, and market failure have led cooperatives to question beliefs which put the survival of the farm above the cooperative. Jeffersonian agrarian values contributed to a culture where cooperatives were run for the needs of farmers, not consumers. This led cooperatives to over-expand into commodity areas that were not economically sustainable. Or, cooperatives compensated growers for poor production decisions at a cost to other members. These values were based on a cultural model that "cooperatives were like a family." Trying to provide a small town personal ambiance and the efficiencies of large scale production within the same organization is a cultural model that cooperatives used to "be all things to all people". Farmer attrition has forced cooperatives into adopting a core business focus where co-ops shed all businesses except those they can do very well. This cultural transition has been aided by agricultural industrialization's focus on the farmer as individual "farm manager", in contrast to the idealized Jeffersonian farm family. Cooperatives are now seen as separate and independent of the farmer, not as an extension of the farm, giving co-ops greater latitude to be more market driven.Institutional and Behavioral Economics,
Unusual catalytic activity of analogues of 2-iodoxybenzoic acid in the hydrolysis of active phosphates
No full textWygasłe kody językowe w rosyjskim przekładzie Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Johna Donne’a
No full textApart from being an excellent metaphysical poet John Donne (1572– 1631) was also one of the most important and voluminous authors of English prose of the first half of the seventeenth century. His extant prose works comprise Menippean satire, political and religious essayes, as well as multiple letters and sermons. Among them the most prominent are two masterpieces. The first of them are Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, an unusual treatise on the issues of sickness, death and salvation written as a direct response to the grave illness Donne suffered in 1623; the second is Death’s Duell, the last sermon preached by Donne and published posthumously in 1632. Both Donne’s Devotions and his Death’s Duell have been translated into multiple European languages, namely into Dutch, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Russian. With few exceptions, all these translations were published in last twenty years. Unfortunately, the translators often underestimate the structural intricacy of Donne’s prose works. Actually, in the structure of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Death’s Duell John Donne has hidden a deep theological message and therefore to disregard it is to create a superficial translation bereft of the most crucial layer of original meaning. To make things worse Donne frequently uses obsolete alchemical, medical and legal notions, which tempts the contemporary translators to render them with general or abstract equivalents being easier to grasp for the readers. However, in the original English text these notions hardly stand alone but are bound together making up a meaningful structural net. Each of such notions comes back several times in slight variations, which indirectly but clearly refers to the Christian doctrine of salvation, in particular to its protestant variant of salvation by faith alone. Hence, their proper translation is extremely important to save some deeper aspects of Donne’s prose works. In this regard, the Russian translation of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions by Anton Niestierow is much better than the other ones. The Russian translation of Death’s Duell by Olga Siedakowa is also very good and consistent, but Siedakowa has a specific problem with rendering some audatious passages of that sermon in which Donne deliberately stands on the verge of blasphemy. This dissertation concerns the issues connected with translation of some obsolete alchemical, medical and legal notions which are present in John Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and his funeral sermon Death’s Duell. The analysis pertains primarily to the Russian translations of the above-mentioned works by Anton Nesterov and Olga Sedakova, respectively. The other translations are presented for comparison, mainly because all the translations of Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions into romance languages are incomplete. Their authors decided to translate only meditations ant to omit expostulations and prayers as too religious and so uninteresting for the contemporary readers. As a result, their translations lack approximately two third of the original English text and its careful structure was almost entirely lost. On the other hand, the full translation of Donne’s Devotions into Dutch by Johannes Grindal was published in 1653 and therefore it is a valuable source for the translatological analysis: its author lived in the same era as Donne and the obsolecy of the referred terms and notions was no issue for him. The translatological analysis refers to two translatological theories. The first one was the theory of the equivalent effect by the Chinese scholar Jin Di. For many years he has collaborated with Eugene Nida and finally he transformed Nida’s theory of formal and dynamic equivalence so that to apply it not only to the translation of the Bible but also to the translation of literary works in which one must face the issue of protection of the state of facts and the fragile aesthetic features of the original text. Apart from Jin Di’s, the chosen theories by French scholar and translator Antoine Berman were chosen. Antoine Berman was particularily interested in the problem of deformation and distortion in translation. However, he died prematurely and his last book Toward the Science of Translation: John Donne is a very intriguing attempt to make up a serious translation theory based on the hermeneutic philosophy by Martin Heidegger and Paul Ricouer. Written in the last months of Berman’s life, that book bears striking resemblance to the circumstances in which Donne himself had created his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. Its second part directly concerns the analysis of some poems and sermons by Donne on the issue of death and resurrection, among them — Death’s Duell. The translatological theories by Jin Di and Antoine Berman have not much in common, but they both stress the necessity of due respect for the original literary text. As such, they are against the post-structural tendencies in translation which barely recognize any boundaries of the free adaptation. The first chapter is dedicated to the detailed literary analysis of Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and his Death’s Duell. The description of the development of Donne as prose writer and the relationship of his prose works with the genre of essay by Michel de Montaigne is followed by the thorough analysis of the structure of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and the protestant soteriology being its hidden background. Then, the analysis of the emblematic structure of Death’s Duell and the role of alchemical imagery in it takes place. Apart from that, the first chapter contains the brief description of the available translations of the above-mentioned works. The second chapter presents the translatological theories by Jin Di and Antoine Berman and how they can find application in the translation of Donne’s prose works. The third chapter comprise the main translatological analysis focused of the issue of rendering obsolete medical, legal and alchemical notions present in the Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and Death’s Duell by Anton Nesterov, Olga Sedakova and other translators. In the separate annex the author of the dissertation put his own Polish translation of both referred works by Donne
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In reply: intraobserver and interobserver agreement in visual inspection for xanthochromia: implications for subarachnoid hemorrhage diagnosis, computed tomography validation studies, and the walton rule: methodological mistake
No full text[Extract] Dr Sabour presents a dialog that, we believe, would have benefited from a considered and temperate review before its precipitate submission. In particular, had the author deferred to have comprehensively digested our article, we feel that his accusation of a "methodological mistake" would probably have been withdrawn
Das Duell zwischen Béla I. und dem Herzog von Pommern – historische Wahrheit oder literarische Fiktion? Eine narratologische und vergleichende Analyse des 79. Kapitels von Chronicon pictum und des Berichts von Gesta Hungarorum
No full textArtykuł jest analizą narratologiczną rozdziału 79 Chronicon pictum oraz rozdziału 52 Gesta Hungarorum, poświęconych scenie pojedynku pomiędzy węgierskim księciem Bélą a pomorskim władcą. Autor opowiedział się za symbolicznym rozumieniem omawianej w artykule sceny. Tym samym podał w wątpliwość historyczność pojedynku, jak i samej wojny z Pomorzanami. Odrzucił pogląd, że postać Mieszka przedstawia konkretnego władcę Polski, a zinterpretował ją jako archetyp całej dynastii Piastów. Następnie przeprowadził analizę porównawczą omawianej sceny pojedynku, zestawiając tekst Chronicon pictum z innymi źródłami narracyjnymi z epoki. W swoim artykule zwrócił uwagę na podobieństwo tego rozdziału do rozwiązań literackich znanych z utworów z gatunku chansons de geste, m.in. Historii o pięknej a szlachetnej Meluzynie. Stwierdził, że owa scena wpisuje się w motyw literacki księcia-wygnańca, który będąc na uchodźstwie w obcym królestwie, ratuje je, pokonując armię poganina-najeźdźcy. Książę potwierdza tym czynem, że jest godny władzy, którą ostatecznie obejmuje.Der Artikel ist eine narratologische Analyse des 79. Kapitels von Chronicon pictum und des 52. Kapitels von Gesta Hungarorum, welche dem Duell zwischen dem ungarischen Herzog Béla und dem pommerschen Herrscher gewidmet sind. Der Autor spricht sich für ein symbolisches Verständnis der im Artikel behandelten Szene aus. Damit stellt er sowohl die Historizität des Duells als auch des Krieges gegen Pommern selbst in Frage. Er verwirft die Ansicht, dass es sich bei der Darstellung von Mieszko um einen konkreten Herrscher Polens handelt, und interpretiert diese als Archetyp der gesamten Dynastie der Piasten. Anschließend erfolgt eine vergleichende Analyse des Zweikampfes, indem der Text von Chronicon pictum anderen erzählenden Quellen aus der Epoche gegenübergestellt wird. Ferner wird im Artikel auf die Parallelen zwischen dem Inhalt des betreffenden Kapitels und literarischen Mitteln hingewiesen, die aus Werken der Gattung der Chansons de geste bekannt sind, wie z. B. Geschichte von der edlen und schönen Melusina. Der Autor kommt zum Schluss, dass sich die Szene in das literarische Motiv des vertriebenen Herzogs einfügt, der in der Verbannung das fremde Reich rettet, indem er die heidnischen Angreifer besiegt. Der Herzog bestätigt durch diese Tat, dass er der Macht, die er schließlich erlangt, würdig ist.The paper is a narratological analysis of the 79th chapter of the Hungarian Chronicon pictum and the 52nd Chapter of Gesta Hungarorum, which describe a duel between the Hungarian prince Béla and the Pomeranian prince. The author opts for a symbolic interpretation of both the aforementioned chapters. He casts doubt on the historicity of the duel. He suggests that the figure of Mieszko, mentioned in the chronicles, was not an actual, historical ruler of Poland. According to the author’s interpretation, Mieszko was only an embodiment of the Piast dynasty and all rulers of Poland. Next, the author compares the duel scene with the duel scenes in contemporary narrative sources. He concludes that this scene fits into the literary motif of an exiled prince who, being in exile in a foreign kingdom, saves it by defeating the army of a pagan invader. He stated that this scene fits into the literary motif of an exiled prince who, being in exile in a foreign kingdom, saves it by defeating the army of a pagan invader
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